A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Chief O'Neill's granted split drink licences
Devey Leisure Ltd, owners of Chief O'Neill's in Smithfield, Dublin, has split its drinks licence three ways to facilitate a sale of the 77-bedroom hotel.
Senior counsel Constance Cassidy, for Devey Leisure, told the Circuit Civil Court that although her clients had entered into a contract of sale with a third party they were retaining the hotel's two associated restaurants.
She said Kelly and Pings and Christoffs were an integral part of the hotel complex and had until now been licensed under the general hotel licence.
Counsel was granted an order separating the original licence into three new ones.
Bailey witness on driving charge
A west Cork woman was fined €500 and disqualified from driving for 12 months after pleading guilty yesterday to driving without insurance, failing to produce insurance, driving without tax and failing to display tax at Ballylongley, Bandon on April 18th.
Marie Farrell, Ardmanagh, Schull, through her solicitor, told the court the family car had broken down and she needed to take her daughter, Tara, for a hospital appointment.
Ms Farrell was a witness at the Ian Bailey libel action and later admitted that she had given false evidence. She testified in 2003 that she saw Ian Bailey at Kealfadda Bridge on the night that Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered in Toormore in west Cork. But last October Ms Farrell said her testimony was false.
Ms Farrell said she was a named driver on her husband's policy for the family car and when she took another car belonging to her husband, she believed she was covered by his policy.
Paper in court on radon charge
The Clare Champion newspaper yesterday pleaded guilty to not measuring for the cancer-causing gas, radon, in its workplace.
Ireland's nuclear watchdog, the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, brought charges against six Clare companies at Ennis District Court yesterday. The court was told that Shannonside Oil would also be pleading guilty. The institute brought similar charges against Paddy Power bookmakers, Woodstock Golf and Country Club; Duggan Glass and Mister Minit Ireland.